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James Stone

First post:
Oct 26, 2016 Latest post:
Dec 23, 2016

James' family has a long history of prostate cancer so we expected we may have to deal with it sooner or later.

Mid September James went in to have a baseline PSA test (Prostate-specific antigen - a protein produced by cells of the prostate gland). Typically a healthy number for someone his age would be between 2 and 4. His was 9.3. The doctor recommend a biopsy, which he had early October. Two days later, the doctor called to confirm it was prostate cancer and insisted on a bone scan and CT scan to see if it had spread. The following week we met with the doctor to go over the results. It is an aggressive form (3-4 on a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the most aggressive) and has already spread to 55% of the prostate.

Radiation or chemo is not recommended since it would make it extremely difficult to do surgery if it doesn't work. We will be scheduling the surgery to be done within the next 2 months tops. Recovery will be a month or 2 off work and very light duty at home.

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